Added Jul 4, 2003
Sue is truly a "self-taught" artist. She has learned all she knows from trial and error, and from reading a wide variety of books on painting. Sue's approach to painting is quite varied. Sometimes she chooses a nice photograph of something familiar or moving and attempts to reproduce her view of its subject on canvas. More often, however, she just picks a palette and lets the paint fall where it may. Eventually the painting reveals itself to her, as if by magic, and she just goes where it takes her. Often she will apply gel and pumice stone or sand to the canvas before painting to give the surface texture. She then lets the shapes that emerge give her hints as to what to do next. She has no strong preference for subject matter just yet, but her paintings so far have revealed a tendency towards a mix of real and unreal, especially in her abstract figures. Her young style ranges from impressionist to expressionist to pseudo-realist. She believes that she will eventually find the strongest of her voices, but for now she's quite happy to be a creative "polyglot".